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Peter Pueschel

Director, International Environmental Agreements

Work

As Director, International Environmental Agreements, Peter focuses on IFAW’s policy work and represents IFAW at international conventions and treaty negotiations that address a variety of wildlife and environmental issues.

Previously, Peter was Head of IFAW’s Tiger Programme. He also led the development of the Wildlife Trade Programme and served as Regional Campaign Leader within the European Union. Today he serves in an advisory capacity to IFAW’s Wildlife Crime and Consumer Awareness Programme and IFAW’s European campaign to end the illegal ivory trade.

Over more than three decades, Peter gained international experience in senior positions at sea and on land all over the world, from local hands-on involvement to high-level international policy negotiations. Under Peter’s leadership, IFAW has been instrumental in increasing international protection for many wildlife species including several shark species, seahorses, turtles and tortoises, whales, elephants and tigers.

He brought IFAW into the fight to end wildlife trade over the Internet and had an important role successfully convincing eBay to ban ivory auctions. He led the development of IFAW’s Think Twice campaign, which urges tourists around the world not to buy wildlife souvenirs in their travels. He has also been instrumental in developing IFAW’s wildlife law enforcement training programs.

Peter is a regular contributor to IFAW publications and speaks frequently before media, government, corporate and civil society audiences. He has addressed EU Parliamentary Intergroups and the EU Commission, the U.S. Congress and the INTERPOL Environmental and Wildlife Crime Working Group.

He has been a regular IFAW representative at international conventions such as the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD).

Peter is dedicated to making this precious world a better place for animals and people by bringing animal welfare values and sound concepts into international agreements and legislation using innovative ways to favorably influence policy makers and the public.

Background

Programme Director for Tigers and other Regional Priorities, IFAW

European Campaigns Director, IFAW

Programme Director for the Wildlife Trade Programme, IFAW

CITES Coordinator, European Union, IFAW

Director, Ocean Ecology and Antarctica, Greenpeace International

Head of Department, Wildlife, Forests and Oceans, Greenpeace Germany

Member, Shark Specialist Group, IUCN

Founding Board Member, Aktionsgemeinschaft Artenschutz e. V., Germany

Community Service NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, Germany)